ECONG011 - Public Microeconomics
Aims:
To provide students with a thorough and up-to-date understanding of research in selected topics in public microeconomics.
Course outline:
Household welfare measurement: costs of children, within household decision making. Social welfare measurement: inequality and poverty.
Issues in optimum tax design. Commodity taxation and consumer demand. Income taxation and labour supply.
Public economics grounds for intervention: public goods and other market failures.
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Taught by: |
Ian Preston |
| Assessment: | 2 hours of lectures per week and 4 problem classes with written assignments. The course will be examined by a 2-hour written exam in Term 3. |
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Suitable for: |
Graduate students. |
| Prerequisites: |
None. |
| Moodle page: | ECONG011 |
